Society plays a large role in nurturing a person. In The Taming Of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, and 10 Things I Hate About You, by Gil Junger, Kat(e) is tamed and is brought under the wing of societal behaviors. Although family and friends are valued more in a person’s life than society, it is society that silently morphs one into what they are. The affects of society are not obviously noticed, but it is the schools, the neighborhood, your neighbors, the television, the billboards, and the government that develops people. In the novel, Kate is drawn in to marriage because of its societal normality. Junger, in the movie, uses the idea of societal normality, and instead of having marriage, uses a hot boy to tame Kat. Both, Shakespeare and Junger end their novel, or book with Kat(e) being tamed. The interpretations that Junger has from Shakespeare’s are different yet convey the same message that society tames Kat. Although Kat(e) singles her self out as an independent person, not affected by society, she is nurtured through her surroundings and eventually is changed at the end of the movie and novel.
In The Taming Of The Shrew, Shakespeare shows his audience how Kate is tamed by marriage. Kate, seeing marriage in her society feels pressured to get married just like everyone else. With pressure put on Kate she goes from a shrew, not wanting marry anyone at all, to a women who would love to have a husband. In act five, scene two, this change can be scene when Kate speaks to the audience claiming how important and precious it is to have a husband saying,
“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,/Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,/And for thy maintenance commits his body/To painful labour both by sea and land,/To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,/Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe,/And craves no other tribute at thy hands/But love, fair looks, and true obedience,/Too little payment for so great a debt” (V.ii.140–144)....